BRIEF SYNOPSIS--- PLEASE CALL FOR MORE DETAILS
Your student package will be mailed after your payment and return of class registration form and supply form
Please call with any questions.
Simply put - take this course at your own speed
[average for fast students is 3 months]
with the assigned instructor over the internet
from anywhere at any time
will recertify most WFRs or WEMTs as well
We have a 48 hr Advanced Wilderness First Aid course available thru distance learning.
The Advanced Wilderness First Aid (AWFA) credential is widely recognized. The AWFA is often accepted for professionals and guides. This twelve lesson program combines text books, videos, equipment that is yours to keep, and equipment to be returned, as well as email/telephone contact with an instructor, and student visual feedback thru their choice of video-web cam- or photographs. Not a street medicine course, this is heavy improvisational care. This is truly an interactive learning program unique to the industry. The twelve lessons each representing 4 hours work, are as follows:
- Lesson One: Wilderness medicine introduction, medical legal, patient documentation, and rescuer safety
Includes backcountry care books to keep and CD/video to study and return
- Lesson Two: medications, Sanitation, communicable disease prevention, water treatment
Includes chlorine dioxide tabs to keep and CD/video to study and return
- Lesson Three: Basic anatomy, physiology, shock and students choice optional topic
Includes anatomy and physiology book and CD/video to study and return
- Lesson Four: Airway, rescue breathing, CPR and altitude
Includes CPR shield, oral pharyngeal to keep, and CD/video to study, and practice shield and return
- Lesson Five: Sight review, patient assessment, and vital signs
Includes stethoscope, blood cuff and CD/video to use study and return
- Lesson Six: Wound care including burns and blisters, lighten, triage
Includes one wound closure kit, irrigation syringe, gloves to keep, triage tag and CD/video to study and return
- Lesson Seven: Heat, Cold, and Altitude
Includes text to study and keep, and CD to study and return
- Lesson Eight: Allergies and Anaphylaxis with use of EPI
Includes physician protocol letter to keep and CD and video and EPI trainer to use, study and return
- Lesson Nine: Splinting including femur traction
Includes Sam splint, 550 cord and CD to study and return
- Lesson Ten: Bites, Stings, Poisons, and Abdominal
Includes sawyer extractor and CD to study and return
- Lesson Eleven: Diabetic, Seizure, Blisters, Burns, and Chest problems
Includes text to study and CD to study and return
- Lesson Twelve: cervical Spine, Evacuation, Testing, CSID, Disaster Preparedness
Includes special wilderness medicine multi purpose triangle to keep and CD to study and return
You are keeping $153 worth of medical items
- Protocol papers for your Doctor $25
- WMO Triangle $5
- Sam splint $18
- CPR shield and 2 Oral pharyngeal airways $10
- Sawyer Extractor $18
- Wilderness First Responder Text $35
- Back country care pocket book $10
- Gloves surgical mask antiseptic wipes 550 cord $10
- Wound kits irrigation syringe $14
- Clorinedioxide tabs $8
- Total medical care items $153
The cost normally is $445 tuition and $200 books and materials.
Please ask about our first time caller discount.
Student work policy: to more forcefully remind you to keep working and not let your learning go dormant, there is a $30 fee if you go 30 days without submitting work. The course may be voided after 60 days of no work being submitted. This is to give you consequences if you get lax in your work.
Special exceptions for sound cause may be granted by the director.
Note we attempt to protect our students identity by using bcc emails when emailing students in a group.